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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Is it just me or has there been a lot of non-news about maddie lately?

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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I feel that performing a citizen's arrest on Blair would probably get me actual arrested

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

ronya posted:

in idealised mortgage-to-let, the bank puts up the capital. the landlord puts up the collateral. the tenant puts up the rent. It would normally make no sense for landlords to, other things equal, want to take on more risk, since they're the ones paying for the risk.

for some proportion of BTLs, i'm guessing, the landlord puts up the capital, the bank makes the gains tax-deductible, and the tenancy is a pure cost to obtain the tax-deductibility: the landlord intends to liquidate the moment the mortgage expires and then re-enter the cycle again. The collateral is actually not sufficient to cover the costs of default; any additional risk of default, therefore, does not fall on the landlord.
The ideal buy to let is one where the landlord decides that it isn't right to buy an extra house to leech off the earnings of another person, and the bank burns down.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I feel that if blairite centrism won elections then Jeremy Corbyn would not be leader of the Labour party

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Marmaduke! posted:

I love that May's response to the Juncker dinner account is to basically go "Nuh-uhh, strong and stable, get the best deal". A bit like when people would accuse the Russians of helping Trump he'd go "No way, there is no need to worry about contact between my guys and the Russians - but the Russians are legit cool and great, and Putin is strong and sexy".

Give me the strongest president and the healthiest president

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010


Haha 69

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Down with communism, said the "left wing", somehow.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

The technique is be creepy in PMs.

The pms would be better if he had a good sig

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Skinty McEdger posted:

Sometimes I look at May's polling as a strong leader and wonder what the gently caress would happen if the conservatives ever did have an actual charismatic strongman as leader.

They lost in 1945 iirc

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Praseodymi posted:

If we're going to do alternate history fanfiction can't we do something interesting.

I'm going to imagine the Soviets just kept going after Berlin and the world is now full communism.

I'm not sure Soviet communism is the style of communism people want. I'm hoping for something where capitalism is a thing of the past, but without thought police and gulags

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

R. Guyovich posted:

there's no telling how much or if any repressive apparatuses would be necessary in a world without imperialism though. im optimistic so i would hope for "none"

I would think that an authoritarian form of communism would still find plenty of ways to oppress people even without imperialism

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Pissflaps posted:

I'm not a very serious political player. I'm just a voter.

You decided to vote?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Pissflaps posted:

I always do. I hope you can join me in voting this coming election.

I was confused what with you saying for months that you may not, but I'm happy that you changed your mind.

I will be receiving a postal vote in the coming weeks which I assure you will be used to vote labour. I hope you also choose to support Labour with your vote.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

LeoMarr posted:

Does anyone know why russians dont interfere in UK elections?

Because Jeremy corbyn will only get 30% of the vote.

We don't want racists posting here, so gently caress off.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Teh national credit card meme

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

LemonDrizzle posted:

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/859479841116217344
Apparently the party of government has been renamed the Teresa May Strong and Stable party, and was campaigning in my neck of the woods this afternoon. Hmmmm.

It makes sense when you remember that the whole purpose of holding a general election is for Theresa may to be given a personal mandate as pm. This is very much a vanity thing for her.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

forkboy84 posted:

It was more about how you try to excuse every gently caress up that the Labour front bench makes, like clockwork.

I dunno, the election just isn't very interesting to me, you're right. It's more of the same, further proof that the British public are too poorly informed to be trusted with electing representatives in their best interests, and too complacent & disengaged to put the work in themselves (see Pissflaps regular proclamations that asking more of him than to put an X in a box come election time for one example). Better to just enjoy the horrifically dumb poo poo like that pillock cutting up his Labour membership because the NEC are going to investigate if a dodgy racist Twitter account belongs to a candidate or not safe in the knowledge that none of this actually matters.

Which sounds more defeatist than I actually am, I firmly believe that a better world is possible, just not in the foreseeable future and certainly it won't come through the ballot box. You're not changing attitudes without improving education, encourage and improve skills like the ability to critically absorb and judge the worth of sources, and strengthen class consciousness.
Ah, the posting of a man who lost hope

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Kurtofan posted:

Jean-Paul you dont scare us

Speak for yourself

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Pissflaps posted:

I'm working class and earlier today I consumed a flat white I purchased from Costa Coffee.

I feel you're a class traitor or bourgie

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

jabby posted:

And yes you do seem pretty down. Remember that 'hope is a lie' is just a meme, not an actual healthy philosophy.

That's madness, doc

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Steve2911 posted:

You never know which of your family, friends or acquaintances could be a lib dem. You may have unwittingly given a lib dem your details even today.

Always be vigilant.

TinTower watches.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

namesake posted:

Leader of the Opposition Pissflaps gets hit in the face with the ceremonial mace 4 questions into his first Prime Ministers Questions.

It was his own fault for asking the same question 4 times in a row, increasingly nasally

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

serious gaylord posted:

Can someone explain what was wrong with this post please?

He uh, got warned?

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Yeah I'm glad Corbyn won't bomb the army

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Pissflaps posted:

Wonder when they'll do a terrorism one.

There's been two terrorist attacks against mps under the conservatives, I don't think they're capable of keeping our elected representatives safe

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Pissflaps posted:

I didn't - what did he say?

"I am become brexit", he said "I am the spirit of 350 million for your nhs. Kneel before me"

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

He also said that Hitler did nothing wrong.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

The Bernie would have won alt-history

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Hell will be the June thread title after the election, but the initial title will be "make June the end of May"

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

spectralent posted:

Wasn't expecting to see a labour gain there, but the amount of labour-tory flips already is going to drive me to drink if I'm not careful. I might just stick to campaigning and stop looking at round-by-round polling data.

EDIT: God, looking at the polls spreadsheet the tories appear to be gaining equally from Labour, the Lib Dems, and Plaid. Who the gently caress is voting for these goddamn lunatics?

Old people aka the type of person most likely to a) vote in elections b)vote conservative c) vote in local elections with a general election 4 weeks away

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

What you have to remember is that local elections have worse turnout generally and as that one lady implied people are getting bored of politics and voting because things seem like constant politics rather than being able to rock up once every give years and vote for the same team you always vote for.

That's my stream of consciousness thoughts about the local elections.



I really hope that Labour will be able to avoid infighting for the next 4 weeks if things go badly.

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

jBrereton posted:

This is truly depressing.

No I guess it's all the fault of jezza and nothing else, curse him for making old people tories

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I personally blame the old people

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Hope is real, like anime

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

J_RBG posted:

God I'm so angry

Hi, so angry. I'm namtab

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o68ZFF5W3PM

Congrats on discovering the namtab secret

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

spectralent posted:

I don't know if I'm exhausted and sleep deprived or if this is genuinely hilarious but either way thank you for making this.

It was .jpg that made it

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Corbyn is left of centre

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

I think Labour would get less votes if Corbyn stepped down now, given that people like to know who their prime minister would hypothetically be.

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Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

WMain00 posted:

I think the reality is Labour is going to split, forming into a Socialist Workers Party led by Corbyn and a centralist New Labour party. I wouldn't be surprised if Corbyn didn't resign after the General Election and this occurred instead.

As Labour leader Corbyn would keep the Labour name, the splitters would go into the cooperative party probably.

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